The April Poems - do you have any favourites?
For those who have been following along, elsewhere in the blogosphere -
Everyone who took part in the April Poem A Day Challenge this month is eligible to have a selection of their work considered for the Top 50 poems. As we are required to self-select, my friend Jennie Fraine and I are going to help each other decide on our best pieces. If any of my other readers have particular favourites, please let me know. We have to submit our selections by May 5th.
Unfortunately some of the poems which people most responded to (Amanda Comes, Oh You Robinson, Dragons, Unpacking the Books …) are among the unprompted pieces which are not eligible.
The ones under consideration are (in order of writing) under the cut:
Lonely
White Days
Partly Functional (Car)
Historical Record
Too Much Information
Goya’s Flying Witches
Until Today (Eye trouble)
Strategic Plan
Portrait of the Poet as an Old Woman
Clearing the Space
Last Time I Saw Her
Machu Picchu
Two Loves
I Grew Up on a Small Island
Approaching the Deadline
Anxiety
The Fractal Universe
To Make Music
Helen Marjorie Holmes
Looking Back, Far and Near
Not Looking Back
According to the Rules (Whirling Dervishes)
Arctic Volcano
Exhaustion
Evening in the Eyrie
Wild Goose’s Sister
More Than Five Times?
The Boy Across the Road
The End of the Line
And Suddenly Dreams Come True
Letting Go of Difference
If you need to refresh your memory, you can see them at my poetry blog The Passionate Crone (or at my personal MySpace profile or my ‘Rosemary’s Readers’ group if you have access to those places).
I have my own ideas of course, and I certainly don’t expect anyone to go sifting through the whole lot! But if anything on that list rings a bell and you’d hate to see it miss out on being selected, please give me a yell.
Everyone who took part in the April Poem A Day Challenge this month is eligible to have a selection of their work considered for the Top 50 poems. As we are required to self-select, my friend Jennie Fraine and I are going to help each other decide on our best pieces. If any of my other readers have particular favourites, please let me know. We have to submit our selections by May 5th.
Unfortunately some of the poems which people most responded to (Amanda Comes, Oh You Robinson, Dragons, Unpacking the Books …) are among the unprompted pieces which are not eligible.
The ones under consideration are (in order of writing) under the cut:
Lonely
White Days
Partly Functional (Car)
Historical Record
Too Much Information
Goya’s Flying Witches
Until Today (Eye trouble)
Strategic Plan
Portrait of the Poet as an Old Woman
Clearing the Space
Last Time I Saw Her
Machu Picchu
Two Loves
I Grew Up on a Small Island
Approaching the Deadline
Anxiety
The Fractal Universe
To Make Music
Helen Marjorie Holmes
Looking Back, Far and Near
Not Looking Back
According to the Rules (Whirling Dervishes)
Arctic Volcano
Exhaustion
Evening in the Eyrie
Wild Goose’s Sister
More Than Five Times?
The Boy Across the Road
The End of the Line
And Suddenly Dreams Come True
Letting Go of Difference
If you need to refresh your memory, you can see them at my poetry blog The Passionate Crone (or at my personal MySpace profile or my ‘Rosemary’s Readers’ group if you have access to those places).
I have my own ideas of course, and I certainly don’t expect anyone to go sifting through the whole lot! But if anything on that list rings a bell and you’d hate to see it miss out on being selected, please give me a yell.